The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-26

least the interstate commissioners Will not up
hold them in doing This is in line with a
former decision by Judge Cooley on the bench
1t is not so easy to understand, however, that
the refusal of the trunk lines to sell tickets over
certain of their connections while they sell
them over others. is not unjust dlscrimlna tlon
Local and State Notes.
H. B. Hammond is expected in the city to-day
or tomorrow and il ia stated that he comes
West this time to take up the extension ques-
ton in earnest
George Brecount, general agent of the L., n.
A & C at this point. yesterday taken sud
denly iI and is confined to his bed His troubles
of rheumatic character.
J. j. Coleman, general freight agent of the
L., n. A. % @. road, is in very poor health, and
il is feared will be obliged to give up his posi-
ton and devote his time to travelling In search
of health.
The latest dodge, where an agent is forbidden
to receive commissions. is for the agents wife to
present the statement of tickets sold by her
husband and receive the commission on the old
time basis.
GENERAL Passenger Agent Ford and his corps
of assistant general passenger agents reached
Cresson Springs yesterday morning. and to day
move on to Washington. There are eighty in
the party.
One OF the best paying features of the freight
traffic on the L., N. A & c. road is its stone
traffic. which amounts seventy-fve to
hundred per day from the numerous quar-
ries on the line,
The latest railroad scheme is the building of
aline from Noblesville TO Shelbyville, through
Fountaintown, Ind. No prerention is made
that it is to be part of a great through line.
but 1T is to be sort of local affair
With the distinguished railroad presidents
Garrett and Depew on their way to Europe. the
inference is that all deals off until the
summer vacation is ended. Possibly Jay Gould
may be heard from occasionally.
G. E. Henderson, receiver of the l., B. & W.,
states that road in this country has there
been so large an increase in locomotive power and
mileage, 3
can be shown in the last two years and one-half
on this system.
The l., D. & S. have commenced equipping
their passenger engines with the Booth slide
valve. This patent, which is the invention of
an Indianapolis mechanic, is meeting with much
favor among master mechanics, and promises to
come into general use.
It is stated that the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company the only company in the world
which has money to loan and will take its own
stock security for such loan. On this plan
they are lending hundreds of thousands of dol
lars at per cent per annum.
The Ashtabuia & Pittsburg, the Niles & At
lantic and the New Castle g. New Brighton
have been consolidated under the name of the
Pittsburg, Youngstown q Ashtabula road All
are Pennsylvania lines and form a branch of the
Plttsburg, Fort Wayne & Chicago road, 125
miles in length.
The PENNSYLVANIA Company have ordered a
frst-cass wrought-iron bridge constructed
once, TO be erected across White river the
Indianapolis d Vincennes road, in place of the
one which recently showed signs or weakness.
The structure will be 400 feet long and will rest
good stone foundations.
A Kansas City delegation of seventy five per-
sons, route to Washington, d. c., to invite
the President to visit thar city, passed through
the city at midnight, on a special train over the
Vandalia and Pennsylvania lines. The party
travel in a train consisting of a baggage car, a
dining car and three Pullman cars.
Gaylord M. Beach, general manager: Edward
Hill, purchasing agent. and Master Mechanic
Turref, of the Decline, were in the city part of
the day yesterday, and went on to Nation. The
object of the trip is TO decide on some improve
ments which have suggested themselves of late
at the shops Of the company in Brlghtwood and
Nation.
On the first of the month the Bee-line will
take full charge of the c., ". e NJ passenger
business at this point, and will consolidate the
c., W. q NJ. Office on South Meridian street with
the Beeline Office on South Illinois street j.
b. Harter, it 8 understood, will act as agent,
and w. S. Jordan, the present Bee line agent,
will be appointed travelling passenger agent for
the Bee-line
A general freight agent who has watched close
ly the workings of the interstate law, says that
but one State in the Union Is benefited by it
1llinos-that State being located that the
producers in it are really benefited through its
operations. So far the railroads are con-
cerned, he says of the trunk lines only the Penn
sylvania road is really benefited by il, and in
other parts of the country, when any line is
benefited, it one of the largest and most pros
porous. On small roads the law is making havoc
of earnings.
Engine 323 on the Bee line. has been rebuilt
and equipped with number of modern improve
ments, and is to put haul the fast trains
between Nation and ST. Louis. This road has
just received from the Grant locomotive works
two large, powerful passenger engines which
to be put in service between annapolis
and Gallon. These engines equipped with
the Booth slide valve have eighteen by twenty
fourinch cylinders and five feet eight-inch driv-
ing wheels.
c. E. Henderson. general manager and re-
ceiver of the L. B. & W., states that he retracts
not word the statement that the interstate
law will cut down the earnings of the l.. B. &
W. the present year. 5000, 900. He thinks it
will be even more than that, as to-day the earn
ings on freight on the Peoria division are off %
per cent under the most favorable operation of
the law. He says that the Improvements in
earnings thus far this year has come from the
passenger business and the better local traffic
the Ohio division.
Some of the loading railroad men of Cincinnati
are trying to persuade the city authorities to
abandon their old fogy ideas and adopt railroad
time. taking the grounds that Cincinnati has
become too important a railroad town to have
portion of the business done by railroad time,
and the city still using solar time which is
twenty two minutes faster than railroad time
business man experiences q good deal OF
trouble in keeping track of the different stand
dards Some go so far as to carry two large
hands on the same watch, one showing the rail-
road time, the other the city or solar time.
The building of the new road from Aurora to
Louisville. via Madison. seems to have been
abandoned. Owners of property through which
the road would pass in the open country well
as in the cities, got the idea in their heads that
the company were so anxious to build the road
that they would pay exorbitant dam ages for
right of way, and if ground were condemned
threatened extended litigation; consequently the
company concluded to drop the project. Posi-
bly, the time will come when the property
holders will see that it would have been better
if they had acted more reasonably in their de-
mands for damages, as that portion of the State
really needs good railroad.
An item is going the rounds of the press that
c. w. Smith, general manager and vice-presi-
dent of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe,
always travels on a special train, has one of the
best engineers and the fastest engine on the
system, and then tells the boys to let her run
and he often gives the boys fve-dollar bill for
making good run. Mr.. Smith may give an